John Yoo of the "torture creative class" is not a happy camper right now.

[madfloridian]

9. Video John Yoo CNN...says they were acting outside orders. Baloney I say.

From Dec. 11

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/11/ex-doj-official-senate-report-examples-very-troubling-if-true/

He really doesn't believe the reports. Well, if I were a torture program architect I wouldn't want to believe them either.

Well, those are very troubling examples. They would not have been approved by the Justice Department – they weren't approved by the Justice Department at the time. But I have to question whether they’re true because I can’t take at face value the committee’s report because there were no Republicans involved.

You know, investigations in the intelligence committee are traditionally bipartisan and the worst thing, from a lawyer’s perspective, from my perspective, is the committee didn’t interview any witnesses. And so, you have these reports, but they never gave a chance to the very participants, the people being accused, to explain themselves. And so I would want to know more about what happened in any of these cases and to see what really happened.

But I agree with you if there were people who had to undergo what you just described, none of those were approved by the Justice Department, I don’t believe they were approved by headquarters at CIA, too.

Instead, what you had, I think, was a lot of chaos and miscommunication going on in the very first months after 9/11 when both people in the White House, the executive branch and Congress were demanding that the CIA become aggressive and get started on going after al Qaeda.